the hospital orderly pushing the trolley down the halls of the hospital at 2 in the morning is paying a higher tax rate right now in this country than the 400 top income earners who are bringing home a third of a billion dollars a year.
Whitehouse highlights the disparity in tax rates between average earners and the wealthiest Americans.
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We're actually somewhat generous about letting [the oil companies] keep half of the excess profits, but we want at least half of it to go back.
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